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VG247.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:23:13 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1Moonshot cancels Fallen Frontier, to focus on mobilehttp://www.vg247.com/2013/02/13/moonshot-cancels-fallen-frontier-to-focus-on-mobile/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/13/moonshot-cancels-fallen-frontier-to-focus-on-mobile/#commentsWed, 13 Feb 2013 00:22:45 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=339479Here’s a story that went under our radar in January: Moonshot has cancelled Fallen Frontier and is instead working on a top-down stealth game for iPad called Third Eye Crime. The news is worth dusting off even this late because Moonshot is staffed by a number of former Bungie employees, and if they can’t sell a game to publishers, you have to wonder who can. In an interview feature on Joystiq, Moonshot’s Damián Isla said that over the past few years, publishers’ interest in the downloadable console space has “evaporated – probably for pretty good reason”, with investment shifting to mobile and social instead.
]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/13/moonshot-cancels-fallen-frontier-to-focus-on-mobile/feed/0Moonshot warns smaller devs to focus on “three or four things”http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/04/moonshot-warns-smaller-devs-to-focus-on-three-or-four-things/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/04/moonshot-warns-smaller-devs-to-focus-on-three-or-four-things/#commentsMon, 04 Apr 2011 13:59:37 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=160683Michel Bastien – head of indie dev Moonshot, the new studio primarily formed of ex-Bungie staffers – has said smaller developers should keep their focus tight if they want to ship successful products.

“You really have to pick the three or four things you’re going to do and really focus on that,” said Bastien, speaking with Gamasutra.

“If you pick more than that it’s unlikely that it’s going to work out, just because you’re not going to have the resources.”

He added: “I think there’s clearly a place for games smaller in scope and a little bit more focused in terms of their ambitions than if you have the manpower of 150 people.”

A few weeks ago, Moonshot Games announced its first title, a 2D side-scroller sci-fi shooter called Fallen Frontier. Many of the team members at Moonshot Games had previously worked at Bungie, but Bastien added that moving from super-development to a much smaller project wasn’t through animosity.

“I don’t think any one of us would be opposed to working on a AAA big game again,” he said.

“It’s certainly not that we made a choice to do Moonshot and the kind of game we’re making because somehow we didn’t think making AAA games was fun anymore.”

Fallen Frontier is currently set for release via download for the PC and consoles in the first half of 2012.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/04/moonshot-warns-smaller-devs-to-focus-on-three-or-four-things/feed/0Fallen Frontier trailer gives off little Halo vibehttp://www.vg247.com/2011/03/08/fallen-frontier-trailer-gives-off-little-halo-vibe/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/08/fallen-frontier-trailer-gives-off-little-halo-vibe/#commentsTue, 08 Mar 2011 05:38:14 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=154422Ex-Bungie team Moonshot has released a trailer for its first project, upcoming sci-fi side-scroller Fallen Frontier. It contains space, but no Master Chief, which will please you or not.

The adventures of law enforcement on darkly dystopian Alpha Centauri, Fallen Frontier features both single player and two-player co-op.

Platforms are yet to be announced, but the game will be playable at PAX East.

Moonshot Studios was founded by Michel Bastien, Damián Isla, Rob Stokes, all three former Bungie and Halo staffers.